2022 has been centered around finding alignment in my life.
I recently joined the Levels Health team to accelerate our community efforts and help our members find a home for their metabolic health journey.
Over the last 1.5 years, I’ve followed the Levels journey, growing more inspired by the team and their mission with every interaction, podcast episode, and strategy doc.
The magic of seeing how food affects your health
For much of my adult life, I’ve been in search of ways to better understand and optimize my health. I’ve done annual Whole30 cleanses, experimented with plant-based diets, trained for marathons, all with the goal to find the optimal diet and workout regimen. While I generally felt fine, I never really understood how my daily choices impacted my body and long-term health despite leading a “healthy” lifestyle. The lack of understanding, paired with being genetically predisposed to diabetes, made it feel like I was destined to have health issues later in life.
Up until I beta tested Levels, it was all about gut feel. With Levels, I began to see how the foods I was eating impacted my health. It shifted my perspective on food from consuming to fueling. It was easy to indulge when my relationship with food was about consumption, but when I began thinking about food as my fuel source, it became far more obvious why I’d prioritize whole foods over processed ingredients. Having access to real-time personalized data and the ability to see the immediate impact all types of foods had on my glucose levels drove more fundamental, consistent, and positive behavior change than any of my previous experiments.
Levels does it differently
Solving the metabolic health crisis is a tall order, but if there’s a team of people who can do it, it’s the Levels team. From building a remote and async company, to inviting our early members to invest in our Series A community round, to orientating our days around deep work and focusing on only the highest leverage activities, every decision we make is intentional. This team pushes the boundary of what it means to do meaningful work.
It’s hard to convey how special it is to work alongside a group of such capable, thoughtful, and passionate people, particularly when we all share a commitment to creating positive change together.
Immensely grateful to pursue this level of alignment and be on this journey with this team. 🙏🏼
